Animal-trap.



C. H. SHOUP.

ANIMAL TRAP.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 1s, 1908.

Patented Sept. 21, 1909.

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CHARLES H. sHoUr, or canaria, musas.

ANIMAL-TRAP.

specification of team-s Patent.

Application tiled November 18, 1908. Serial No. 463,142.

.ing had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in animal traps; and an object of my invention is to provide an animal trap which Will be simple in construction comparatively cheap in manufacture and e cient in use.

Another object of my invention is to provide an animal trap which will be adapted for the catching of animals from the size of a mouse to the size of a dog.

In the drawings illustrating the ple of my invention and the best mo e now known to me of applying that rinciple, Figure 1 is a perspective view o my new animal trap, part of the wall being broken away to show the interior construction; Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section; Fig. 3 1s a section on the hne A--A of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a detail showing the gate or wicket over the opening in the bottom of the trap; and Fig. 5 is a detail showing the trap placed in the corner of a room.

' My new which is i ur-sided and open at both ends and which, therefore, resembles an ordinary passage wa or conduit. This open-ended feature' lea s the animal to believe that the passage is op'en at both ends and that it may emerge at the other end of the conduit.

Each end of the casing or conduit a is controlled by a wicket b, which is adapted to swing inwardly but which cannot swing outwardly because of its length '(see Fig. 4). The wickets are each formed with a series of prongs or teeth c which would catch the animai provided it forced itself under the The bottom d of the casing is :formed wit a hole e, which maybe laced over a hole in the floor f, as is best s own inFig. 2. Extending transversely of the trap are two plates y, one on eachside of the openin e; and between these piates g is mounte free to rincinimal trap comprlses a casing a l through the swing a wicket h. Obviously, a rat passing holes f and e into the trap by raising the wicket h cannot return, as the latter falls by gravity and prevents it from gaining access to the hole c again.

In the top i of the housing or casing a is mounted a slide j whichv serves as a cover for the bait-box 7c. The latter is ormedwith a perforated bottom m. The animal having been cau ht in the trap, the llatter isplaced in a Sac and then turned upside down, whereupon the wickets I) will tall inwardly and the animal will run out into the sack end of the trap. @ne end n of the top z' of the trap is made V-shaped, as is best shown in Figs. l and 5; and this end 'n may be placed in the corner of 'a room, when the animals hole is in a corner. When the hole is in the side of the room, the opposite end will be placed over the hole.

The side wall o is formed with an'out- `wardly extending lange D which engages in a groove or channel formed by `doubling back upon itself, as at g, one edgeof the bottom d. By pressing the side wail o `in-' wardly, it may bedisengaged from the bottom g so as to permit an inspection of the inside of the trap,

through the i claim: l

1. AnA animal trap consisting of the combination of a housing open at its ends and formed with a hole in its bottom; a pair oi' wickets, one foreach of said open ends and controlling the same, said wickets being free Vto swing inwardly into said housing but being held against swinging outwardly therefrom; a pair of plates which extend transversely which lies said hole; and a wicket mounted y,over said hole and free to swing between said plates.

2. An animal trap consisting of the combination oa housing open at its ends and formed with a hole in its bottom; a pair of gravitating non-return wickets which con'- trol said' o en ends and revent passage therethroug from the inside of the trap. while permitting entrance to the inside of the trap through said open ends; and a the housing of which is preferably made of sheet metal.

1n said housing and between Patented Sept. 21, 1909. I

,Qravitating non-:return Wicket mounted over my hand at Wellington, Kansas, this 12 the hole in the bottom of said housing, said day of November, A. D., 1908, in the pres- 10 yWicket permitting access to be gained to ence of the two undersigned Witnesses.

the inside of the trap through said hole While preventing passage frotfn the inside CHARLES H SHOUP' 'of the trap to the outside thereof through Witnesses: said hole. IVAN D. ROGERS, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set W; H. SCHULTE. 

